Formula One Racer Lewis Hamilton Plays With Tigers Like Housecats

Some say that Tigers are just big housecats. Formula One racer Lewis Hamilton put that theory to the test.

The fearless racecar driver shared videos of himself via Snapchat, which he later posted on YouTube, playing with a couple of the large cats that call The Black Jaguar-White Tiger Foundation home, in Mexico. During most of the video, Hamilton is seen walking around a large room with a tiger, but later on viewers see him playing outside with a jaguar and a white tiger.

While Hamilton doesn’t break out the laser pointer for his feline friends, he does play around with the big cats, almost as if they are just a couple of house cats. He rubs their faces, pushes their paws around and gives them big scratches all around their head. And, like most housecats, they respond by batting him away with their paws and putting his hands in their mouths.

There is one big difference between a tiger and the standard housecat – a tiger can literally kill you. And even though these big cats seem pretty chill around Hamilton and his friends, there are defiantly a few times even he is surprised when they pounce on him from behind.

Also, they like to chew on his shoes – probably so he can’t run away.